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  • Buffed-up avatars deter us from exercising hard

    Buffed-up avatars deter us from exercising hard

    If you’ve ever played an immersive game using virtual reality (VR) technology, you’ll be familiar with the concept of customising an avatar to represent you. Most people design an aspirational, buffed-up version of themselves, but new research from the University of Bath suggests you should temper your vanity when the game is for fitness, as your performance improves when they compete against an avatar that more closely matches your authentic self.

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  • Watchdog sues for data on airport facial recognition

    Watchdog sues for data on airport facial recognition

    A civil liberties watchdog sued the US government Thursday seeking the disclosure of records on the use of facial recognition technology being deployed at American airports.

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  • Robots popular with older adults

    Robots popular with older adults

    A world without robots is now almost inconceivable. Not only do they take on important tasks in production processes, they are also increasingly being used in the service sector. For example, machines created to resemble humans—known as androids—are helping to care for elderly people. However, this development conflicts with the preconception that senior citizens are rather hostile to technology and would be skeptical about a robot. A study by psychologists of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany suggests, however, that older people are far less anxious and hostile regarding such ‘human robots’ than previously thought.

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  • On-demand services bring public transport to the suburbs

    On-demand services bring public transport to the suburbs

    The technology-driven revolution in urban transport is largely centred on the inner city. It has completely missed the suburbs, which lack the public transport services and shared micromobility devices, such as e-scooters, that inner-city residents enjoy. But new technologies, skilled operators and willing governments may have produced a solution for the suburbs, known as on-demand transit.

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  • New study presents efficient, solution-processed, hybrid tandem solar cells

    New study presents efficient, solution-processed, hybrid tandem solar cells

    Colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cells have attracted considerable attention due to the advantages of being flexible and lightweight. Additionally, they are much easier to manufacture compared to commercial silicon solar cells in use today. Now, researchers report a novel technology capable of maximizing the performance of the existing CQD solar cells.

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  • Researchers organically engineer solar cells using enzymes in papaya fruit

    Researchers organically engineer solar cells using enzymes in papaya fruit

    Titanium dioxide (titania) thin films are commonly used in various types of solar cells. The fabrication methods that are currently used to create such titania films require high temperatures, as well as expensive, high-end technologies. Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have now developed a fully organic method to engineer porous titania thin films at relatively low temperatures.

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  • New record could usher in new era for solar energy

    New record could usher in new era for solar energy

    The future of solar technology is almost reality, with researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) setting a new record for the conversion of sunlight into energy.

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  • Groundbreaking all-solid-state battery technology

    Groundbreaking all-solid-state battery technology

    On March 9 in London, researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Samsung R&D Institute Japan (SRJ) presented a study on high-performance, long-lasting all-solid-state batteries to Nature Energy, one of the world’s leading scientific journals.

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  • AMD processors susceptible to security vulnerabilities, data leaks

    AMD processors susceptible to security vulnerabilities, data leaks

    Graz University of Technology researchers recently revealed that AMD CPUs dating as far back as the early 2010s are susceptible to side channel attacks. Researchers have now demonstrated that a pair of infiltration approaches—collectively termed “Take A Way”—can access AES encryption keys.

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  • High-quality extended reality in easy-to-use and inexpensive devices

    High-quality extended reality in easy-to-use and inexpensive devices

    Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) technology open new possibilities across many fields. However, high-quality extended reality (XR) applications are computationally heavy in terms of computer graphics, which means that they do not run smoothly on inexpensive and easy-to-use XR devices such as VR/AR headsets and smartphones, because their GPU computing capacity is limited.

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